Ellen Gray | Ken Burns battled making 'War,' but now he's at peace

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, June, 2007

ALL'S WELL that ends well.

That's the story, at least, that filmmaker  Ken Burns  is telling on his promotional tour for "The War," his World War II opus premiering on PBS Sept. 23.

Given the mist of nostalgia that's settled over "The Greatest Generation," "The War" has been dogged by a surprising amount of controversy.

PBS executives have worried about how the ever-more-prudish FCC would regard some of the language - a total of three F-bombs in 14 1/2 hours - while Hispanic groups, upset when they learned that none of the film's interviewees was Hispanic, protested, and eventually got PBS and Burns to agree to include them in some fashion.

How exactly that's being done still isn't clear - the...